Authors & Booksellers to Mingle at 'Welcome to Hollywood' Reception

More than 12 of indie booksellers' favorite authors will be on hand at next Wednesday's "Welcome to Hollywood" Reception, co-sponsored by the American Booksellers Association and the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. The event, beginning at 5:00 p.m. at the Egyptian Theatre, just down the street from Hotel ABA, is free and open to all ABA and SCIBA member booksellers.

Authors who will be there to chat with booksellers include:

• Cecil Castellucci (Beige, Candlewick)
• Robin Preiss Glasser (illustrator of the Fancy Nancy series, HarperCollins)
• PJ Haarsma (The Softwire series, Candlewick)
• Denise Hamilton (Eve Diamond novels, Scribner)
• Jonathan Kirsch (A History of the End of the World, HarperOne)
• Ron Koertge (Strays, Candlewick)
• Virginia Shin-Mui Loh (The Jade Dragon, with Carolyn Marsden, Candlewick, September 2008)
• Kerry Madden (Jessie's Mountain, Puffin Books)
• Carolyn Marsden (The Quail Club, Candlewick)
• Mark London Williams (The Danger Boy series, Candlewick)
• Wendy Werris (An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the World of Books, Carroll & Graf)
• Kaie Wellman and Emily Mattson (eat.shop guides, Cabazon Books)
• Lisa Yee (So Totally Emily Ebers, Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic)

Booksellers will also enjoy wine supplied by Brown-Forman, courtesy of Harry N. Abrams, to celebrate Laura Holmes Haddad's Anything But Chardonnay (Stewart, Tabori & Chang). Haddad is a food and wine journalist and the founder of www.Gourmetgrrl.com.

Special bakery items will be provide by Da Capo Lifelong Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, and Mäni's Bakery in honor of Mäni Naill's new cookbook Sweet! Home Baking With Every Kind of Natural Sugar and Sweetener.

For booksellers arriving in Los Angeles earlier in the day on Wednesday, ABA has made special arrangements with Red Line Tours, which has developed a special walking tour of Hollywood sites with a literary edge. ABA has also created a list of alternative activities. (Read more.)